Hot Button Topics in Cultural Policy (2015)
The course will explore the practice of creative placemaking, one of the most important contemporary cultural policies for urban development.
Hot Button Topics in Cultural Policy (2014)
This course offers students the opportunity to engage in real-world cultural policy research focused on some of the most pressing issues affecting the cultural sector. In Winter 2014 the “hot button” topic is the rapidly changing landscape of arts participation and its relevance to communities defined by a shared ethnic or immigrant identity.
Introduction to U.S. Cultural Policy (2013)
This course provides an overview of U.S. cultural policy, tracing the origins of the arts infrastructure from the late 19th century to the present, with a focus on the shaping of cultural organizations, taste, patronage systems and audiences.